Quantock Landscape Partnership

We had a great time supporting the #GreatBritishBeachClean with Quantock Hills National Landscape @quantock.hills for @mcs_uk Marine Conservation Society. Supporting The Severn coastal areas, picking up litter in a not-so-rubbish area! 😁😎🥾✨📸✅

It might still be May but midsummer is not far away and we're celebrating the return of sunshine this half term 🌞 We had a great game of statues with our creative craft at youth clubs this half term - a chance to shine a light on the sun's seasonal standstill 😎 We'll be at a few more events this half term, including our Wild Wednesday at Wilstock & Stockmoor Country Park. Come and enjoy the @quantock.hills with @heritagefunduk

The Photo Walk exhibition! 😎A chance to see the photos from the people, and places, that make our Photo Walks 😃✨🥾📸 Come to Fyne Court National Trust @ntsomerset to see this wonderful display of photos, celebrating the diversity of life across the seasons on the @quantock.hills Captured by participants on our Photo Walks over the past 4 years, and selected, curated, and compiled by those participants too... the exhibition looks back at what makes a walking year on the Quantocks. It also looks at the importance of these walks for many communities, bringing people together, but also providing partnerships and lasting friendships! Any good walk deserves a well earned coffee and cake stop (a staple for our group), so what better time to visit Fyne Court than when their new soft serve ice cream machine is open! Visit from tomorrow to try out the cafe and exhibition... and excellent combo! Exhibition runs until June 3rd and we're inviting visitors to select their favourite images, which we hope to be collected in a Photo Walk calendar for next year. Vote for your favourite at the exhibition. Thanks to all the communities, businesses, partners and funders who have made these walks possible - you have brought so many people together on the hills and experiences that will last long after the exhibitions ends. Quantock Hills National Landscape The National Lottery Heritage Fund

There are many ways to get outdoors with us in the coming weeks and months. Let us take you somewhere picturesque ✨ Book via the link in bio 🔗✅

Join us on May 3rd of the magnificent dawn chorus. Spaces are limited so don't miss out, book your place now! /e/quantock-hills-dawn-chorus-tickets-1325084406129?aff=oddtdtcreator

Are you joining our walk this weekend? 🥾🌱✅ We'll be celebrating the coastal countryside. As the mud makes way for the buds of spring around the corner, can you capture these macro changes in nature? Or perhaps you want to exercise your landscape lens... then Lilstock has it all covered. See in your Saturday with our social Photo Walk. Link in bio to book your place☺️🙌🔗 /e/1252502541819?aff=oddtdtcreator @heritagefunduk

Winter warmer Wednesday 🥰🐶🥰❄with a midweek Photo Walk to welcome our walking year on the Quantock Hills National Landscape with the The National Lottery Heritage Fund Find out when you can join our next walk by following updates on /events-new

A huge thank you to everyone who gathered at Hestercombe House to celebrate the project In the Footsteps of the Romantic Poets! We’re grateful to have shared this momentous occasion with so many of you as we reflect on the success of this inspiring four-year journey. At the celebration, we had the pleasure of hearing reflections from the project’s coordinator, Alice Crane from SPAEDA; Bill Jenman who led the Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme and from some of the students and artists involved. We were especially proud of Clara, a primary student who spoke about how the project had connected her to natural places and inspired new confidence in her writing and speaking skills. Artists, Fiona MacDonald and Megan Broadmeadow of Feral Practice, evidenced the value of creative collaboration when they described their experience of producing ‘The Word for Home is Forest’ a short fiction film, commissioned as part of the project and co-created with students from Pyrland School. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who made this project possible—teachers, artists, pupils, cultural partners, and supporters. Your contributions have left an enduring impact. A special thanks goes to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme, and Quantock Hills National Landscape for their vital support in bringing this project to life. At SPAEDA, we continue to champion the health and well-being benefits of connecting with nature through the arts. We’re eager to collaborate on future projects that foster recovery, resilience, and belonging for children and young people through creative engagement. If you’d like to partner with us, please get in touch. Together, we can continue creating opportunities for young people to connect with art, nature, and their local heritage. #QuantockHills #artandlandscape #outdoorclassroom #poetsinschools #inthefootsteps #inthefootstepsofpoets #NationalLotteryHeritageFund #quantocked #quantockhillsaonb #culturallearning #wellbeing #environmentalawareness #Education #creativeeducation #nature

Fantastic photo walking at @hestercombegdns to see the autumn colours and add our own splash of colour to the QLPS mural wall on display this week! It's been a fab journey with our photo walks over the years. So nice to share some of the @heritagefunduk work we've done across the @quantock.hills with the people who have made it possible! Don't forget to visit Hestercombe this week and see some of the highlights of the scheme and share your highlights with us too :)

Leave the safety of the known world behind you and follow ghosts of the past Into the Woooooods... with us this Halloween! 👀🧙🧟🧌🧛🧝👻🎃 Come on a family-friendly storytelling adventure with us and find your way through the woods as we navigate some of the folklore and fantastical tales of these hills! You'll have a chance to craft your own adventure and use traditional techniques to create tools to protect you on your way. Head to 🔗✨link in bio to book your place. Kids go free! (Booking required, adults/guardians must be present, recommended age 7+ for children) @heritagefunduk @quantock.hills

Have you seen ‘In the Footsteps of the Romantic Poets’ at Hestercombe House yet? 👣 👣 As part of their current show, ‘What Stories Makes Worlds’, ‘In the Footsteps of the Romantic Poets’ tells the story of a 4-year project helping pupils of all ages understand and connect with their local landscape and heritage through making, playing and exploring outside. The project takes inspiration from the Romantic Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William and Dorothy Wordsworth, who lived and wrote in Somerset’s Quantock Hills. Alongside this the Quantock Landscape Partnership Team have put together an exhibition of the wider project taking place across the Quantock Hills and this runs 4th - 11th Nov downstairs in Hestercombe House. We encourage everyone interested in local heritage and conservation to make a visit by booking entry to Hestercombe between these dates! Can’t make it to Hestercombe? Explore behind-the-scenes and more artwork from the comfort of your home! For those unable to attend in person, we've curated a digital gallery so everyone can explore the project! Dive into the artwork and stories online - link in bio. Tag us in your thoughts or DM us! We’d love to know what you think of the project and exhibition of work. ‘In the Footsteps of the Romantic Poets’ was produced by SPAEDA for The Quantock Hills National Landscape and The Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme, with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. First image by Jon Barrett | QLPS #QuantockHills #artandlandscape #outdoorclassroom #poetsinschools #inthefootsteps #inthefootstepsofpoets #NationalLotteryHeritageFund #quantocked #quantockhillsaonb #culturallearning #wellbeing #environmentalawareness #Education #creativeeducation #nature